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Are there any renowned comics or runs that you've heard to be good.

I've never read:

Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol
Sin City
Alan Moore's WildCATS

Which should I read first.

You will be rewarded.

Good question.

Doom Patrol's the only one I know well, and I recommend it as really gripping stuff.

Myself, I keep meaning to get round to reading some Will Eisner.

- Trout

Maus has sat on my desk for about a year now.
Also, there's been no small amount of criticism of Mark Miller on this messageboard based on the admittedly questionable quality of his 2000ad work, but I wouldn't mind reading his run on My Little Pony.

Haw!

But you need to make time for Maus. Trust me.

Okay, I will.  But don't bother with Sin City, Krust.  One of the books is enough to read, because after the second one you'll realise it's the same thing over and over again.

Which one though?

"The Hard Goodbye". It is, IMO, the best of the lot. Should have been re-released in a new format by now, so just Amazon for it...

anything by Will Eisner im particularly hot to read "The Building" or his other non Spirit stuff

Contract with God
Maus
V for Vendetta
Promethea
Alan Moore Swamp Thing
ALL sitting on my bookshelf ALL unread.

Tom Strong has remained unread for weeks.

I prepose we remove from existence ukdane as if they have all of those unread in their possession then well they just don?t deserve to of ever have been born
in fact I would go further to say erase the previous 3 generations from history as well I am THAT disgusted with you.
hang your soon to never have existed head in SHAME!

Endjinn how could you?

...would personaly recommended all of Swamp Thing series, even after Alan Moore left, me i would love to get my hands on the complete Luther Arkright...

"...would personaly recommended all of Swamp Thing series, even after Alan Moore left"

Ugh, no. I bought the "Swamp Thing: Regenesis" TPB recently, and I don't think I've read a bigger turd in a while. It takes what had been an intelligent, entertaining comic & lobotomises it. Pants.

Maus
The Tale of One Bad Rat
   
Steve

I'd go for Doom Patrol, followeed by Sin City. Both of which are by top creators doing what they love doing, and both of them at the top of their game (well, for the earlier bits of Sin City anyway...). WildCATs has its fans, but lets face it is a for-the-money product of Moores wilderness years. It's better than a lot of stuff in that vien, but to be honest I'd go for just about anything else by Moore first.

...i was meaning the issues that ran after Mr Moore left, not the recent rehashes, (sorry Mr Diggle), even though i have read them in the past, would love to see a collected volume on Scream...

Heh, it's the Veitch issues I'm talking about, actually (though Dig-L's run on Swampie was pretty naff as well...). I couldn't believe the difference between Moore's final issue & Veitch's first :-(

The Golden Age of Hellblazer-De Laneo and Ennis basically

Moore oddities-Supreme, Lost Girls and Big Numbers

Miracleman

Grant Morrison stuff-Zenith, Doom Patrol, Animal Man and Swamp Thing (w/Millar)

Luther Arkwright: Heart of the Empire (Got the first series at a good rate...some of the prices for Heart of the Empire are fucking stupid)

The Last American (Com X collapsed before I got round to buying it-anyone's got a spare copy then (puppy dog eyes and hand waving a 20quid note))

Maus

And then a load of French stuff that I can't read because I decided to sleep in French rather than learn the lingo.

Will

Read Maus II and that was so awesome, I want to get hold of the original.

Very few comics get into our hold and manage to last 24 hrs before being read, so my wish list for comics to buy and read are:

Maus (The original)
JD (the copyright infringement issues)
The Forever War (read an episode and it held up so well in comparison to the book)
The Crow (Karen wants them so badly, she is willing to draw blood, mine!)
Any Victors that we do not already have!
Batman: The Scottish Adventure. (Read it years ago and would enjoy reading it again)

Has Com.x gone?

Ah, Miracleman. Yes, must get to that.

If I'm ever bloody well allowed to.

Also, Dane: READ V FOR VENDETTA NOW!

I just re-read all Morrisons Doom Patrol and its still my favourite. Maus is great, read it now!

Ive never read Days of Future Past which Im told is a classic. Keep meaning to buy it but never do.

There'sa Luther Arkwright article in next month's meg: I assume it'll be in the same style as the Modesty Blaise one- cool!

I liked Arkwright.

Trout: Will do.

Never read Miracleman either.. might get sued if I say I own it ;-)

I want to read the 70's DC Phantom Stranger series, which is good cos I 've just won half of it for 50 quid on ebay.yesssss!nooooo!yeesssss!

One of my long-standing unread classics was Wagner and Locke's  "A History of Violence", which I somehow had confused in my head with "Story of a Violent Comic" (don't ask), until I found it in a 2nd hand shop at the weekend.  Blimey but it was good.  Finished it late last night and then lay awake for several hours unable to get the final pages out of my head. Had to go and read Pratchett's "Hogfather" to dislodge the imagery. Ta for that, John.  Highly recommended.

Other things I've never read (but want to) include Moore's Image work (Supreme, various Spawn spinoffs, WildCATS etc.), Esiner's 'Contract with God', Astro City and Powers.

And for God's sake, people, read "V for Vendetta" before it's too late.  You simply could NOT be disappointed.

* All of Alan Moore's non-LoEG stuff (can't afford it all)
* Any progs before #530
* Doom Patrol
* Any X-Men stuff after 1998

LMS, I can lend you lots of that. Just let me know. :-)

- The pusher

The only Eisner I have read is "Contract..."

I have not read Maus.  Or History of Violence, or much of Hellblazer (I blame the fact you can't tell which order to but the collections).

I have read Miracleman (I own books one and two from a pound shop clearout).  Love Swamp Thing

Not too impressed with Tom Strong.  Still trying to get my head around Promethea.

Dan

never read Watchmen, or V for Vendetta,  not heard of a lot of stuff mentioned

just read From Hell and Dark Knight Returns,  FH was the first non 2000ad Moore I've read,  pretty damn good DKR lived up to the reviews as well

I've read some of Maus, read and got V for Vendetta, Watchmen and The Filth.
But thats it. Never got into anything else.

I think I need the collected issues really, never got into odd issues, need to read it all at once.

I've still only read the first four GNs of Gaiman's Sandman. Having said that, though, I'd rather be gifted all of Sandman Mystery Theatre by a mysterious benfactor instead. That stuff was good.

Yer know I was looking at this thread thinking what do I know,then you reminded me; the sandman, series all of them.

They'd be my choice also.

Believe me Im not a follower of peoples ideas to be popular, I just need to be reminded every now and then where my likes are at.

When it comes to comics this board usually shoehorns the stored stuff 80% of the time.

jimmy:)

Yep UKDANE, CI quoted an interview with one of the owners whose put it on hiatus and taken on US work for hire gigs.

Anyone know where I can get a copy of Last American and Rob Williams/ Trev Hairsine's superhero book?

Will

A little caution on those new Sin City editions:

I've read a couple of complaints about the binding on those.  I had a look at them at my LCS last week and agree; they are very flimsy and I don't like them at all.  Rather than going mail-order, I'd suggest you try and find a shop near you and judge before buying.

Reading Hellblazer is a real chore, thanks to DC's refusal to issue the trades in anything resembling a proper order.  The next time they find a new Vertigo trade editor, deleting everything in print now in favor of new, numbered volumes should be the first thing they do.  (Continuing their collections of Doom Patrol, Shade the Changing Man and Sandman Mystery Theatre should be next on the agenda!)

--Grant

Having recently Discovered the delights of Alan Moore, V is next on my agenda(when I find a trade), L.O.E.G and generally ransacking the ABC line.  ALso wouldn't mind reading more of Morrisons earlier American work, too many to list.
Just dont get down to Perth enough and always forget what I'm after when I do(all those bright shiney up to date monthlies always grab my damn attention).

CU Krestel